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CONGliESS CuiNVENES
SENATE 13 IN
TWENTY
SESSION
MINUTES.
ONLY
Rules of Last House Adopted and
Cannon Elected Speaker Real
j Work of Lawmakers Will Begin
J After Mossage of President Is Heard.
Washington, Dec. 5. Tho assem
bling of tho lncinhcrtt of tho Kitty
ninth congress for tholr first Hussion
was marked by no unusual Incidents,
lint It attracted to tho cnpltol crowds
of spectators, who took a lively Inter
est In tho proceedings. In tho son
ato tho proceedings wore brlof, hut
most of tho spectators seemed to find
quite ns much to Interest them in ob
serving tho senators who remained
on tho floor after adjournment as
they could have experienced had the
uesslon continued longer.
Tho houso was In session for more
than thrco hours and while tho pro
ceedings followed tho program that
has marked the opening of congress
for many years, thero was enough of
interest to hold tin exceptionally largo
uudlcnco during tho entire tlmO. Ono
notlccnhlo feature was tho ahsenco
of flowers, which heretofore havo
l)ccn common to both chambers. On
opening days the display had been bo
Brent that this exhibition alone would
liavo boen sufficient to draw great
crowds, and tho ubsenco of floral trib
utes, duo to a resolution adopted
unanimously by tho senate and to an
order of tho speuker In tho house,
robbed tho occasion of much of its
jileturcsquencBS.
Senators Allison and Morgan woro
nppolnted by Vico President Kair
lmnks ns a committee to notify tho
Iiresldent that congress wna ready for
amy communication ho desired to
tunke. The sannto was In session
only twenty minutes. Senators Aid
rich (It. I.), Knox (Pn.), Warner
(Mo.) nnd Krazlcr (Tenn.) took tho
oath of olilce nnd an adjournment waa
taken as a mark of respect to tho
late Senator Piatt of Connecticut.
Speaker Cannon Re-Elcctcd.
The preliminary steps to organiza
tion were taken by tho house. Jo
seph 0. Cannon (111.) was re-elected
speaker, tho members of tho houso
took, tho oath of office, the officers
and floor employes of tho body were
re-elected, tho rules of tho last con
gress were adopted and members
wont through tho formnlity or drawing
for scats, all of which was enlivened
by the presence of crowds In tho gnl
lories, the animation of tho reunion
of veteran members and Interest of
now ones.
hi a brief speech against tho adop
tlon of the rules, tho minority leader,
Williams (Miss.), touched on the In
terest or tho country In tariff legisla
tion, and told or tho now Republican
""Ideas" which were bolng "watted to
"Washington on breezes from every
part of tho country." These, he said,
might bo properly legislated for
should tho "minority of tho majority"
Rtnnd with tho Democratic members
In opposing tho ndoptlon of the old
rules and forming now ones, which
would permit consideration of such
legislation as popular opinion might
dlctnto.
A committee wns appointed to act
with tho senate conunltteo In notify
ing President Roosevelt that con
cress was ruadv to ti-nnsnct. luminous
tho rules committee nnd lhn ennunH.'
wiu uiiLh lummiuiu anu tno commit-(
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iuu uii iiiiil-iiku wuru appointed anu j
1ho houso adjourned after a session
which Instcd threo and a half hours,
In compliance with resolutions an
nouncing tho doatli of Senator Piatt
of Connecticut and Representative
Marsh of Illinois.
A largo number of bills nnd Joint
resolutions wero introduced In the
liouso. Thoy cover a largo vnrlety of
subjects, including Philippine tariff,
statehood, pensions, regulation of tho
hours of employment In tho oxecutlve
departments, merchant marlno. in
cronso of salaries of tho vico presi
dent and members of tho cabinet, re
quiring corporations to mnko reports
of their affairs to tho commissioner
of corporations, Increasing tho powers
of tho Interstate comnierco commis
sion, Investigation of campnlgn funds,
of expenditures on tho Panama canal,
of Insurance companies doing nn in
terstate business, of cotton reports, of
tho condition of child lnbor, provision
for a six-year term for tho president
and tho election of senators by a di
rect voto of tho people.
, Summary of the Message.
Washington, Dec. G. Tho nnnunl
message of tho president wns read to
congress. Tho longest section deals
with tho railroad rato question. Ho
repeats his recommendation for rato
regulating power In tho Interstate
ommorco comlssion; tho maximum
or minimum rato fixed by tho commis
slon after hearing it to go Into ef
fect at once, subject to review by tho
courts; privato car linos, Industrial
roads, refrigerating and elevating
charges to be likewise put undor pub
lic supervision. Stability, rather than
Ideal oi' perfection, is needed In rais
ing rovonuo. Ho admonishes that last
year's deficit requires that expend!-
j Hi. t Wit
erne laws readjusted. Puhlld.
campaign con i notions nnd (
bltlon of contributions by corporation
is demanded. Ho recommends care
ful consideration whether the burenu
of corporations cannot bo extended to
govern interstate transactions in in
surance, both fraternal nnd benevo
lent societies, as well as old line. He
insists on holding every big corpora
tion responsible and accountable to
the government to Insure healthy so
cial and industrial life.
GOES SOWN WITH ALL
HANDb
Record of Ships and Lives Lost
in
Recent Hurricane Increased.
Chicago, Dec. 2. The steel steamer
Ira II. Owen, carrying a crew of nine
teen, Is believed to havo gone down
wltli ail liands during tho recent
storm on iJako Superior. The Owen
was slgl. ed last Tuesday by the
steamer II. B. Nye, whllo off Ekater
island, of tho Apostle group. The
Owen was blowing distress signals
and seemed to be in a bad way. Tho
Nye wus almost helpless In tho terri
ble storm and could do nothing to as
sist the Owen, which was soon lost to
sight In a blinding snowstorm. When
tho storm cleared, two hours later, tho
Owen hnd disappeared.
Ono hundred and forty-nlno lives
hnvo been sacrificed, over seventy
ships wrecked and a loss of nearly
$7,000,000 has been sustained in tho
threo big storms on the great lakes
this season.
SENATOR
BURTON SENTENCED.
Six
Months In the Iron County Jail
and to Pay a Fine of $2,500.
St. Louis, Nov. 30. United States
Senator Joseph Ralph Burton of Kan
sas was sentenced In tho United
States circuit court to serve six
months In tho ron county jail, Iron
ton, Mo and to pay a flno of $2,500
for noting In tho capacity of a paid
attorney in behalf of the Itlalto Grain
and Securities company of St. Ixnils,
before the postofllcc department, to
prevent the issuance of n fraud order,
while a senator. Ho was released on
bond In tho sum of $5,000, with It. C.
Kerens as surety, pending an appeal
to tho supreme court. Execution of
sentence wns stayed pending appeal.
Harmon Receiver for Two Railroads.
Cincinnati, Dec. C The Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton nnd tho Pero
Marquette railroads were ordered
placed In the hands of a receiver by
United States Circuit Court Judgo
Henry Lurton, and Judson Harmon,
former United States attorney gen
oral, was appointed receiver, giving
bond for a total of $200,000. The ap-
nllnntlmi wns nimln hv Attnrnnv l,nw.
rence Maxwell, Jr., on behalf of Wal-
tor n. Horn of New York, creditor of J
both roads, and wns agreed to by tho
defendants, In answers admitting tho
principal charges of insolvency.
Consul Parsons Killed.
Mexico City, Dec. G. American
Consul General James K. Parsons was
killed by an olectrio car.
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
Features of the Day's Trading and
Closing Quotations.
Cldi'iiKo. I?c. .r. Active dem, mils from a
IojiiIImk bull operator was the principal
caiiMj today of a strong wheat inarKet
here. At tho close wheat for May dellwry
was tip fte. Corn wis up Wn '," Oats
Hhoweil a pilii, of fv. Provisions were mi-
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VM,!"1"1" '" -' '""l'r- iiuimmk vrn-;
wheat-lie.'., hr,t4(jhr,e; May, WViMfe;
July, .SP'nMc.
Com lice, l.w new,
4ru i:.'v.e; .Inly. lt,e.
Oats -Dec, IKHAc; May,
81 One.
-l.''WrrirVie; May, ,
irJWj.T-'lic: July, '
I'orU-.Tnn., $i:i.tl70; Mny. $i:i.ri7H.
Kind -.Inn., f'.lTV'lV.'JO; May. $7.;ir.
ltlhH Inn.. S(l.t)7Vd; May, ?7.17Mt.
ClilcaRo Ca.h Prices No. 'J hnnl wheat,
o M . ..liii ... v-.. .1 i...... ...I iii.i.... .
rn-yii.-iu-.ji-; .Ml. .1 llillll twil'ill, oni.-i.H-; .Ml.
:i corn, lav-jiMltc No. i! natn 'MVnVM)
South Omaha Live Stock.
South Omaha, Dec. n. rattle ltecoliits.
1,300; Kcnerally stcinl. ; nalle steers, $:i.i."i
(t.'i.it'i; cows nnd heifers, $L'.7.'ii I.L0; west
em steers, JflUKXijM.M). Texas steers, .f'J.aVd
;i.7.'; raii(,"e cows anil helfeis, S.'.XVii;i.."().
e. nners, $l.ri(Xi('J.U(i; Mocl.eis null feeders,
s-.vj.Vji i.oo; calves, $:s.iO',ms.oo: bulls. xttiKS
etc., $1 WulVXi. lloKx-UocelptK. 11,000;
' sluule to Tie lower; heavy, 91.7."1i-I..S7,j! i
I mixed. SI.HKjH.STi; llj:lit. SJ.MViil.'.H); pljtt,
, $-t.'.'.VKl.u; bull, of sales. 1.S.V l.Vi. i
Shecp-Kecelpts, VJ.OOO: slow to 10c lower;
yearlliiK-. $HXKMl.:ir; wethers. $..;t((..U0;
ewes, ijir.(HKi(.'.L'0; liunlis, M,UVi7.M.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago. Dee. ri.-Cattle-Ueielptw, fi,
000 j steaily; common to prime steers, fl'.lKt
rutl..".V, cows, JfJ.MVU-t.IiO; heifers, iflUWr
fl.OO; bulls, $LMMi3(4.i:i; calcs, fJ.(NK7..0.
1IiKN Receipts, -T-VXH); steady; choice to
prime heavy, SUKKii.'i.OO, medium to kooi!
heavy, .? l.SV.i UKi; lightweight butcheli),
fUXKJl.'.OO; good to choice heavy, mixed,
?l.!XK(-l.0."i; paeUIng, Sl.hOjM.ii.-,. Sheep -Receipts,
1H.0OO; steady; sheep, Sl.oo'mt.OO;
yearlings, fU.OOfttMSTi; lambs, $7.00 7.75.
Kansas City Live Stock.
Kansas City, Dei'. 5. Cattle Receipts,
18,000; steady to U)c lower; native steers,
?:i.."(Vii(l.liri; western steeis, $l.MM('t.7,'i,
stockerH and feeders, $'-UO'.riO; cows,
SL'.OOIM.OO; heifers, S'-'.oOfifi.lO; calves,
.MKiHI.rpO. llogs-Ueeclpts, 18.0(H); opened
steady and chised c lower; bulk of sales,
$-.7rf.W); heavy, J4.8.V(4.0:; pigs and
light, ?l.liOSil.B5. Sheep-Receipts. Il.WKJ;
Btrong to 10c higher; lambs. $5.uOii7.CO,
ewes and yeurllngtt, $-i.r0yu.lO.
Many Vessels Ashore.
London, Dec. 4. Thero was a donso
North sea and It is understood many
vesselB have gone ashore.
EU3SIA IS ISOLATED
SYMPATHY WITH STRIKERS IS
TURNING INTO INDIGNATION.
Appeals to Worklngmcn of St. Peters
burg to Cut Loose From Revolu
tionaries Guard for United States
Embassy Reaches Capital.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 4. Via Eydt
kuhnen, East Prussia, Dec. G. Al
though there appears to bo no founda
tion for the prevailing fears that rn
outbreak is imminent, the population
continues In n state of anxious sus
pense. Tho garrison has now been
reinforced by forty-two battalions of
Infantry, fifteen squadrons of cavalry
and twelve machlno gun batteries.
Tho government, It In reported, nar
rowly frustrated a plot whereby 1,000
armed men had arranged to raid tno
state treasury. The extension of the
Btrlko of the telegraphers to tho pos
tal system Is complete and the paral
ysis of business Is Increasing tho
danger of a financial crisis.
Tho strike of tho Moscow telephono
opcrntors, who cut tho wires and toro
up tho poles, has severed tho last
means of communication with tho an
cient capital. The present conditions
arc unbenrablo. Sympathy with thq
poorly paid post and telegraph em
ployes is now turning Into Indignation
ngalnet tho strikers, and the public
Is supporting a formidable movement
which has been started by all classes
to throw off the yoke of the revolu
tionaries. Gapon Against Strikers.
Tho government is undoubtedly en
couraglng the organizing of tho
forces. The "law and order party"
took tho lead, which is now being fol
lowed by tho "society of strike break
ers," but the most important move
ment has been started under the lead
ership of Kather Gapon, tho former
Idol of tho workmen, who, since his
residence abroad, has become con
vinced that Russia is not prepared for
a republic, and Is appealing to his old
comrades to cut loose from the revolu
tionary agitators. Tho latter already
chargo that Kather Gapon has been
bought nnd that ho is a traitor to tho
cause of tho people.
This being a holiday, Kather Gapon
attended meetings of eleven of the or
ganizations which ho controlled be
fore Jan. 22, at which his words were
cheered to tho echo. At these meet
ings tho socialist orators were howled
down nnd In some cases forcibly
ejected. If this movement should
grow and an effective split among tho
workmen be thereby created, it will
prove of immeasurable service to tho
government in tiding things over until
tho meeting of tho douma.
A guard for the American embassy,
consisting of marines, under a petty
officer, from tho United States cruiser
Minneapolis, arrived here.
Lieutenant General Rudiger, min
ister of war, reversed tho judgment
of tho court-mnrtial at Samara, sen
tencing to death an engineer named
Sokoloff and other lenders of the rail
road strike. Thus a general railroad
strike Is averted.
JEWS SEND OUT AN APPEAL.
Implore All Civilized Nations to Pre
vent Impending Catastrophe.
Odessa, Dec. 4. This dispatch Is
sent at the request of the Jewish
community, which fears a fresh mas
sacre by tho local garrison. It is as
serted that a proclamation is being
circulated In almost every regiment,
calling on tho soldiers to exterminate
the Jews and to destroy the newspa
per offices in revenge for groundless
accusations against the tioops of their
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participation in massacres and pillage
and in tho protection or rowdies. This-
Is exciting tho population ngalnst tho
army. Tho Jews assert that tho ofll
cers deliver nnti-Somitic speeches in
tho barracks, after removing the Jew-
tcli unlflliil'C! ntiil flint f!in-r.r,if. rtr.,1.
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crnl Kaulhars hlmseir has confessed
that tho officers aro burning for re
vengo on tho Jews nnd that ho is un
ablo to guarantee tho preservation of
order. In vlow of tho fact that this
city is entirely cut off from St. Peters
burg and thus Is altogether In the
hands of tho local authorities, tho
Jewish community implores all civ
ilized nations and their governments
to tako all possible measures at St. '
Petersburg to prevent the catastro
phe, which may exceed anything that
has yet occurred.
HUNDREDS SLAIN AT KIEFF.
Bloody Combat In Streets Between
Engineers and Cossacks,
Vienna, Dec. 5. The Tnggeblatt
publishes a communication from
Odessa saying that travelers arriving
at Odessa from Kleff report that a
serious light took place thero last Fri
day between engineers and CoBsacks.
Many hundreds were killed or wound
ed. Tho Nouo Prele Presso publishes
a dispatch trom Lemberg, Gallcla, evi
dently referring to the same occur
renco at Kleff, but giving fuller do
tails. It says that tho engineers re
'used to work as telegraphers, where
uDn ino irouDI1 uegan. rive nimureu
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Joined by a number of Infantrymen,
and followed by a crowd of workmen.
Near tho railroad station the muti
neers engaged 300 Cossacks nnd drovo
them off. Later, in tho Jewish quar
ter, the mutineers faced an Infantry
regiment, which fired two volleys,
killing 1GI3 persons and wounding
mnny. Tho remainder of the muti
neers surrendered. Many Russian and
Polish families, the dispatch says, are
fleeing from Kloff.
JEALOUS HUSBAND BRAINS WIFE
J. A. McCarthy Crushes Woman's
Skull and Commits Suicide.
Wymoro, Neb., Dec. 4. Mrs. J. A.
McCarthy, who was brutally assaulted
with an nxo by hor husband, died
from her injuries. Hearing reports
concerning his wife and a young man
in town McCarthy fell In a faint upon
the floor at his home. After recover-
ing from his fainting spell McCarthy
walked down town and procured a ro-
volver. Upon returning homo ho en-
o-.t t,n ,r.o I., o nf r inntnna mtrn
and pointing tho revolver at her the
cartridge failed to explode. Seizing
an axe which lay in tho kitchen, Mc
Carthy then struck IiIb wifo on tho
head, felling hor to tho floor, and then
shot her. Believing sho was dead, tho
crazed man rushed Into n bedroom
and placing tho revolver in his
mouth, killed himself instantly. Tho
tragedy was enacted In tho presence
of a daughter and an aged aunt, who
were unablo to interfere.
HUNTS SPOUSE SEVEN YEARS.
Bohemian Woman Finds Divorce
Granted and Seeks to Set It Aside.
Hastings, Neb., Dec. 4. After a
search covering a period of nearly
seven years and extending through
Austria and Bohemia and to tho Unit
ed States, Mrs. Cornelia Celpelka, a
pretty Bohemian woman of thirty-five,
found her husband In Crete, Neb., di
vorced from her by a decree Issued In
this city In June, 1(102. Mrs. Celpelka,
whoso father is a wealthy distiller In
Ceska, Trebova, Bohemia, has applied
to tho court to have the decree sot
aside. She asserts that tho proceed
ings wero irregular for tho reasons
that she was not served with a notice
of the suit, though her husband know
where she lived; that tho court here
had no jurisdiction because the plaint
iff resided in Saline county, outside of
Its district, and that tho evidence pre
sented was perjured.
The husband, who is a doctor, Is
practicing at his profession in Crete
and is said to havo acquired extensive
property Interests In that place.
PETTUOHN AND TOWLE GO.
Valentine Land Office Attaches Dis
missed by President for Fraud.
Omaha, Dec. G. Advices from
Washington say President Roosevelt
has removed from office James C.
Pettljohn, register of tho land or
flee at Valentine, Neb., for participa
tion in alleged land frauds In that
state, and has demanded the Immedi
ate resignation of tho receiver, Albert
L. Towle. The ofllces for the present
will be in charge of a special agent
of the general land office.
Tho removal of Pettljohn nnd Towle
Is the result of the sweeping investi
gation by special Inspectors of tho
Innd ofllco, which has been in prog
ress in the state for a number of
weeks. During tholr Investigation it
was discovered that in the Valentino
land district tho local land ofllcers
had themselves set up "dummies" to
make entries or government land for
tho use and benefit of tho government
officials; that these ofllcers had been
In collusion with tho Illegal land
fencers and with those who had mado
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fraudulent entries nnd that thoy had
derived personal prollt tnoreoy.
NEBRASKA AGENTS ASK PRODE.
Want Insurance Companies Chartered
in State Investigated.
Omaha, Dec. G. A vigorous demand
for a state investigation of the llfo
Insurance companies chartered In the
state of Nebraska was voiced by tho
Nebraska Llfo Underwriters" associa
tion in a scries of resolutions, which
declared tho Investigations In Now
York were for tho good of policy hold
ers, nnd that the limelight should bo
turned on western companies also.
It Is asserted that another sot of
companies, according to their sworn
statements on file with tho insurance '
department, expends from 34 to -18 per
cent of its entire income on expenses
of management, whereas tho big New
York companies now under investiga
tion spend less than half as much.
Tho resolution demands "that life
insurance companies chartered by the
state of Nebraska should bo Investi
gated by a legislative committee or
examined by an expert actuary in or
der that the citizens and policy hold
era of tho state may know whether
their policies nro legally and proper
jy safeguarded and their equities care-
- fully secured, and thus make certain
- these companies havo sufficient assets
- ' properly invested to cover all tholr
- liabilities, and also ascertain whethor
- 1 undue extravagance nepotism, or otU'
cr uaa practices exiBU"
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